[Xymon] Feature request: add description in hosts.cfg for conn multiple IP entry

[Jeremy Laidman]

On 11 April 2013 01:49, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:

> Use the COMMENT keyword in your hosts.cfg entry and it will display on
> the web page.
>

I think that's only per-host, and not per-IP.

However, I wonder if the "route:" tag might be used to leverage the COMMENT
keyword.  You could define the other IP addresses as other hostnames, and
then use the route: tag to bind them to the main host.  Like so:

1.2.3.1 main-host1 # conn=worst,1.2.4.10,1.2.5.20,1.2.3.2,1.2.3.3,1.2.3.4
route:main-host1-ilo,main-host1-con,main-host1-wsbp,main-host-wshbp,main-host-ora

1.2.4.10 main-host1-ilo # "COMMENT:ILO address"
1.2.5.20 main-host1-con # "COMMENT:PA-RISC Console port"
1.2.3.2 main-host1-wsbp # "COMMENT:Web Server Business Portal"
1.2.3.3 main-host1-wshbp # "COMMENT:Web Server https Business Portal"
1.2.3.4 main-host1-ora # "COMMENT:Oracle Listener/databases"

The key result from using the "route:" tag is (from the man page):
"The status message will include information about the hosts in the
router-list that are down".

J
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